For those who need to know more:
Local media have reported that the institute has subsequently been locked down, with staff forced to sleep on the floor and on chairs. “They’ve been isolating everybody since Friday – more than 60 people,” one relative, Roman, told the news portal Siberia.Realities.
He said family members were allowed to drop off food at a checkpoint while tests were carried out inside the building. Similar quarantine restrictions have been placed on several other hospitals in and around the city.
- 8 days
At least this time around they seem to be treating it seriously instead of trying to cover it up to save face I guess?
- 8 days
They do both “nothing to see here” while trying their
worstbest to contain it.My money is on them shipping infected people to the front lines while saying they are just in quarantine.
A few weeks later “oh noes they all ded frum virus” meanwhile they just spread it to all their own troops while claiming it’s just a flu and everyone is fine.
- megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish8 days
Funnily enough, this isn’t even the worst leak of a disease from a lab in Russia. That honor (probably) going to the Sverdlovsk anthrax leak in 1979 which killed at least 68 people.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish7 days
US military spread bacteria over the west coast in operation sea spray in 1950. 11 hopitalized. One dead.
Scientists told the military that post war nuclear testing should occur off the east coast because of prevailing winds. Military: fuck you and here’s your cancer.
Just finished watching this and it’s one of the best miniseries I’ve seen. It did such an incredible job of portraying the oppressiveness of the Soviet state and its impact on its citizens. I found it a bit soul crushing seeing the parallels to what’s currently happening in the US when ideology comes first.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish7 days
I saw it as one rogue asshole boss causing a disaster.
US tried to downplay three mile island.
Wow! That boss sure had A LOT of sway over the USSR to enforce reactor rods with graphite tips! And to have intentionall held back computer technology in the reactor!
- Sam_Bass@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
the people in wuhan said the same thing just before things expanded out of control
- BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish8 days
I still remember reading reddit threads about what looked like mass incineration of human remains and the speculations thereabout.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish7 days
And NY morgues had to use refrigerated trailers for over a year.
8 daysIt was definitely some random scary bullshit on the internet that co-mingled the two. But so much of the hype in the early days of COVID ended up being FUD used by the administration to justify draconian anti-immigration policies. We had FOX News screaming about Leprosy and “Mexican Flu” being transmitted by Migrant Caravans decades before that. Any disease outbreak became an excuse to hyper-police people entering the US at the borders.
Part of the problem with all this disease discourse is that it’s routinely anti-foreigner agitprop. This goes straight back to The Spanish Flu, which originated from a Haskell County, Kansas pig farm and got spread across Europe by WW1-era US soldiers. It became major weapon of the 20th century reactionary right to ban Italian Immigrants way back then. Now we see disease scares used to freeze out everyone from Taiwan to Brazil to Afganistan. If anyone is sick anywhere, it’s an excuse to ban migrants everywhere.
- blargh513@sh.itjust.worksEnglish9 days
Every lie that is told incurs a debt to the truth. A debt that shall one day be repaid.
WHO is still asking Russia for more details, including what actually caused the lab worker’s death and reports of a second pneumonia case.
https://twitee.co/DrTedros/status/2107591815863968121
So I guess we’re still at the “not enough information” stage.
- rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish7 days
That’s like saying MRSA is no big deal because millions of people die every year from bacterial infections.
They’re studying some outlier versions of an illness with a much worse outcome.
- Rolivers@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish8 days
From the HBO show Chernobyl. It’s really well made and worth watching.
- 8 days
I’ve never seen a more accurate depiction of my typical experience in a professional environment. “Nobody wants to speak up or handle things correctly because someone senior with direct responsibility for your employment shouted down any dissent because they want to meet a metric” is apparently a timeless experience.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish8 days
The show was very well done, but it implies this was history. That mass of reactor is still burning underground, and Russian bombs have damaged the sarcophagus covering it. The remaining reactors are still in use.
burning
no, it’s not. if it was burning something would be coming out. melting might be a description, but it’s not even doing that… smouldering maaaybe?
you are 100% correct that russia is playing stupid games with their radiological fuckup, and that should stop immidiately.
re: remaining reactors - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant
according to wiki they have been decommissioned and are in a state of cool down; power needs to be maintained in order to keep cooling pumps going for the reactor cores; but power is not being generated and comes from off site.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish8 days
Whoops… they also had more fires after the meltdown, in other reactors.
- 8 days
Really scary to think about the burning mass in the underground…
Also very abstract to think about that.
The Soviet management fucking everything up is eternal and omnipresent.
If something can be fucked up. The state will find a way. The bigger the state, the bigger the fuck up.
